Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Paper Examines AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons

P. K. G. Williams of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian argues that AI supplies the tools for a previously infeasible enclosure of the scientific information commons, turning shared knowledge into private wealth and eroding supporting social systems via "slop spam." The paper offers a scholarly basis for scrutinizing AI's impact on shared knowledge.